Actually I feel no sympathy for anyone who makes moronic choices and ruins their lives and futures regardless of their race.
In the not so distant past those choices did not include which rest room to use, which seat one could occupy in the theatre or bus if black, which hotel one could stay in (regardless if the person is a headliner at that hotel in Vegas), which job was suitable for your race (if black), where you could live in a city, if you could or could not move (if you were a sharecropper in debt to "the boss" you could not), you could not choose to marry outside your race, whether or not you could vote...etc ad naseum.
Today we have black billionaires (winfrey), millionaires (sports), CEO's (Aetna Insurance and FedX), President, Physicians (Clark of John Hopkins). In other words achievement at all levels when race is removed from the picture.
The ignorant and lower classes of all races will continue with racist remarks as they search for someone less than themselves.
SPOT ON!
I have always felt completely out of step with that philosophy which tells us to seek a balm for our troubles by looking for people who have it worse off than we do
The whole:
"I cried becuase I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet"
philosophy is rather bassackwards thinking, as far as I can tell.
Basically it's the rationalization technique of a psychopathic personality to find solace in others' misery.
How on earth can somebody else's misery be expected to cheer me up?
I have never really understood that value system.
It strikes me as basically insane to be honest.
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